This week’s selection is a dark orchestral fantasy piece with a mystical mood. Obligatory choir chanting included!

This week’s selection is another cue from the political thriller The F-Zone. More accurately, a medley of two cues for adjacent film scenes which I thought complemented each other well.

The first part puts a moody soprano sax* atop piano and flutes, while the second section is more somber and string-focused.

* Saxophones aren’t legally required to only play jazz!

In movies as in life, a tax audit is a trying event. The audit scene in the thriller The F-Zone is accompanied by the score’s recurring piano motive as well as glissando strings which might suggest (depending on your imagination) either alarms or sighing with exhaustion.

This week’s selection is another cue from the political thriller The F-Zone.

I’m fond of the often-underutilized low registers of mallet instruments. Here the vibraphone, normally something we might normally consider jazzy or relaxing, takes on a subtle ominous character. The harp, likewise played in the bottom of its range, makes for a nice (and creepy) accompaniment.

This week’s selection is an action cue from one of my first feature films, a political thriller called The F-Zone.

The string orchestration gives it a quaint and almost neoclassical sound in comparison to the brass/percussion/electronic action music style of today, but I’m pleased with the energy and sense of storytelling even after all these years.